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Cabresto Lake: We had no reports from anglers this week.
Charette Lakes:We had no reports from anglers this week.
Cimarron River: Water flow below Eagle Nest on Monday was 12 cfs. Trout fishing was fair using small brassies, elk hair caddis, small streamers, salmon eggs, worms and Panther Martin spinners. We had no reports from the Gravel Pit Lakes.
Clayton Lake:Another big rain in the area brought the lake level up an additional two feet and brought murky conditions as well. This slowed fishing again but there were a few trout taken on worms.
Conchas Lake:Fishing was very good using chicken liver, homemade stink bait and nightcrawlers for catfish. Fishing was fair using topwater lures, tubes, crank baits and jerk baits for smallmouth bass and largemouth bass. Anglers using topwater lures in the shallows also picked up a few walleye. Fishing was fair using crank baits and sassy shad for white bass. The surface water temp on Monday was in the low to mid 70s. The lake level rose about four feet since the last report. The Cove and Central campgrounds have reopened and the steep boat ramp on the north side and the Corps ramp on the south side are now open.

For the second straight night, the Albuquerque Isotopes came through with a walk-off, come from behind victory over the Round Rock Express.
Albuquerque trailed 5-3 heading into the bottom of the ninth but scored three times in its final at-bat to win 6-5 at Isotopes Park Tuesday afternoon. The win by Albuquerque gave it a split in the four-game set in the race for first place in the PCL American Southern standings.
Round Rock (45-35) still holds a 1-game edge over Albuquerque (44-36), the same as it did when the series started.
Round Rock won Saturday and Sunday’s contests before the Isotopes bounced back to win Monday and Tuesday.
The Isotopes have today off and will travel for a four-game series at Memphis starting Thursday. They will return to Albuquerque for Independence Day.
The two teams were tied after eight innings, with the Isotopes scoring twice in the eight to knot the game at 3-3.
In the top of the ninth, however, the Express pushed two runs across. Joey Butler doubled in Mike Olt, who one batter earlier singled in the go-ahead run.
Butler’s double chased Isotopes pitcher Steve Ames out of the contest in favor of Kelvin De La Cruz, who struck out Jim Adduci to end the inning. De La Cruz was ultimately credited with the win (1-1).

Former Los Alamos Hilltopper basketball standout and current University of New Mexico Lobo star Alex Kirk is still alive in his quest to represent the United States at the World University Games.
Kirk, the 7-foot center for the Lobos, who has had solid success with the Lobos through two years of play there, is among the final 16 players vying for a roster spot on the USA men’s team to compete in the World University Games.
The final cut, which will trim the roster down to 12 players, is scheduled to be announced Friday, prior to the team’s departure for Kazan, Russia, where the World University Games will be played.
The finalists were announced today by USA Basketball on its website.
Kirk had a big hand in helping the Lobos to a Mountain West regular season and conference title during the 2012-13 season. Kirk, returning from back surgery which made him miss the entire 2011-12 season, finished this past season with a 12.1 points per game average, third best for UNM, and led the team with 8.1 rebounds per contest.
For his efforts, Kirk was named to the second team All-Mountain West for his redshirt sophomore season.
The World University team is currently training at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Workouts there will continue through Sunday.

The Albuquerque Isotopes rallied for four unanswered runs to top the Round Rock Express Monday.
The Isotopes and the Express are in a battle for first place in the Pacific Coast League’s American Southern standings. The Express (45-34), who won the first two games of the series Saturday and Sunday, were two games up on the Isotopes heading into today’s play.
Albuquerque trailed 9-6 after 6-1/2 innings, but got three runs in the bottom of the seventh to tie it up and scored a run in the bottom of the ninth to pick up the walk-off 10-9 victory.
It was a wacky bottom of the ninth, featuring two walks, two hit batsmen, a flubbed sacrifice attempt and an ejection of both Round Rock catcher Jose Felix and manager Bobby Jones.
When the dust settled, John Baker drew a bases-loaded walk to force home Alex Castellanos for the winning run. The Isotopes only got one ball into the field of play the entire inning, that being Castellanos’ sacrifice attempt on which leadoff hitter Matt Angle was thrown out at second.
Nevertheless, the Isotopes (43-36) picked up their first win of the four-game set. The series finale, and the finale of the short homestand for the Isotopes, was this afternoon.

Former Los Alamos basketball star and current University of New Mexico Lobo men’s basketball player Alex Kirk was named to the 2012-13 Mountain West All-Academic team.
Kirk, along with teammates Hugh Greenwood and Cameron Bairstow were honored by the Mountain West last week. They were three of UNM’s conference-high 111 student-athletes named to the list for the spring 2013 semester.
Greenwood, Bairstow and Kirk combined to start in 87 games for the Lobos during the 2012-13 season, which saw UNM go 29-6 and earn the Mountain West’s regular season and conference tournament titles. Unfortunately, UNM, the No. 3 seed in the NCAA championship tournament, suffered a stunning upset at the hands of Harvard University in the fist round.
Kirk, for his part, was third in scoring for UNM last year. He averaged 12.1 points and was also the team’s leading rebounder, pulling down 8.1 boards per game.
Bairstow was fourth on the team in scoring (9.7 points per game) and Greenwood was fifth (7.0 points per game). Greenwood also had a team best 47 steals last year.
In all, UNM had 163 student-athletes make the All-Academic squad combined throughout the school year.

nd a nonprofit organization are teaming up to help provide water to New Mexico’s wildlife populations during the drought.
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has made a one-time provision of $40,000 to New Mexico Department of Agriculture to help the state’s ranchers defray the extra cost of hauling or pumping water during the drought.
Game and Fish director Jim Lane and agricultural director/secretary Jeff Witte made the announcement during the mid-year meeting of the New Mexico Joint Stockmen, which is comprised largely of ranchers, earlier this month.
“Anytime a rancher provides water for his cattle, there will be wildlife that benefit from that water, also,” Lane said. “We recognize the contributions landowners make that go a long way toward keeping our wildlife healthy, especially during the drought, and this money is to say thank you for that.”
Game and Fish is primarily funded by the sale of licenses to hunt, fish and trap game species in the state, not by general taxpayer dollars.

The Albuquerque Isotopes came through in the eighth inning, avenging a late-inning loss the night before at Omaha.
Albuquerque’s John Baker run-scoring single during the top of the eighth helped the Isotopes rally for a 6-4 victory Thursday.
The Isotopes (42-33), who have now won 9 of their last 11 contests, finish their road series tonight before returning to Albuquerque for a four-game set starting Saturday.
Albuquerque led 4-1 early in the contest, but Omaha’s Adam Moore hit a towering 3-run home run in the fifth to tie it.
In the eighth, Baker lined a single through a drawn-in infield to push home a run and Matt Wallach drew a walk with the bases loaded to force home another run, giving Albuquerque the win.
Omaha didn’t go down without a fight, however, getting two straight hits to start the ninth while Xavier Nady hit a hard line drive to first base that was speared by Rusty Ryal, who then doubled-up the Omaha runner on first.
The Isotopes’ upcoming four-game home series includes postgame fireworks Saturday night and a visit from popular traveling mascot Myron Noodleman Sunday night.

A sixth-inning home run by the Omaha Storm Chasers’ Brett Hayes helped to snap the Albuquerque Isotopes’ seven-game win streak Wednesday night.
The Storm Chasers prevailed in the nightcap of a doubleheader Wednesday in Omaha. Hayes’ two-run home run was all the offense the Storm Chasers would muster in that game, but it would be enough to top the Isotopes 2-1.
The Isotopes didn’t have any trouble putting runs on the board in the first game, however, picking up an 11-3 victory to add to the team’s season-best winning streak. The Isotopes (41-33) scored nine times in the third inning to put that game away early.
Rusty Ryal went 4-for-7 in the two games, knocking in three runs and scoring three runs, while Tony Gwynn Jr. also finished 4-for-7 and scored twice. Brian Barden had one hit in each game for Albuquerque, extending his hitting streak to 15 consecutive games.
In game one, Omaha went up 2-0 after two innings off Albuquerque starter Matt Magill, but Albuquerque answered by sending 13 batters to the plate in the top of the third.
Nick Buss and Matt Angle both doubled in runs in the inning and Ryal and Gwynn both had RBI singles.
Geison Aguasviva (4-3) pitched 3-2/3 innings of relief to earn the win.

The Albuquerque Isotopes scored three early runs to down the Memphis Redbirds 4-3 to close out their series at Isotopes Park.
The top three hitters in Albuquerque’s batting order, Dee Gordon, Elian Herrera and Tony Gwynn Jr. combined for half the team’s hit total and three of the four runs Monday. With Monday’s win, Albuquerque takes the home series sweep over Memphis. It was the fifth win in a row for the Isotopes (39-32).
The five-game win streak is the longest of the season for Albuquerque, which has won six of its last seven contests. Albuquerque has now moved into second place in the PCL American Southern standings and is just a half-game back of division-leading Round Rock.
Albuquerque scored twice in the first inning and pushed another run across in the second to go up 3-0 early. Memphis (35-37) came back with a pair of runs in the top of the third, but wouldn’t score again until the seventh.
In the first inning, the Isotopes scored their two runs on two singles, three walks, a throwing error on a pickoff attempt and a wild pitch.